Vocabulary acquisition is one of the most challenging obstacles language learners must overcome. This is especially true for students wishing to study in overseas universities, where comprehension of academic texts is required. This dissertation evaluates the vocabulary teaching component of an intensive English teaching programme for students intending to enter universities in the U.S. It firs...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of male broiler chickens in the period from 21 to 42 days of age fed diets with increasing levels of sunflower meal (SM) supplemented with an enzyme complex (EC). A total of 1920 animals of the Cobb strain were distributed in a randomized block design in a 4 × 3 factorial arrangement (four SM levels and three enzymes utilization types)...

This paper suggests and discusses an answer to the following question: What distinguishes causal from non-causal or coincidental cooccurrences? The answer derives from Elizabeth Anscombe’s idea that causality is a highly abstract concept whose meaning derives from our understanding of specific causally productive activities (e.g., pulling, scraping, burning), and from her rejection of the assum...

this experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of different levels of l-carnitine on productive performance, egg quality and blood parameters in laying hens. forty-eight hy-line w-36 egg layers were weighed at 90 weeks of age and randomly allocated into 16 cages (three hens per cage). four dietary treatments were prepared by supplementing l-carnitine (0, 50, 100 and 150 mg/kg of diet)...

.......This issue of IEEE Micro is a little bit different, to say the least. It includes four debates from the Computer Architecture Research Directions (CARD) workshop that was held as part of the 13th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture in February 2007. The organizers approached me about a special Micro issue about CARD and I said, ‘‘Why not?’’ W...

Selection for high productivity has been the long term focus of pig breeding programs worldwide, however, Rauw et al. (1998) highlighted that selection for productivity alone has unfavourable consequences for a number of metabolic, reproduction and health traits across species. More recently, Prunier et al. (2010) reviewed relationships between high physiological demands and the health and welf...